Panic At The Disco! Climbing To The Top

The rock band Panic! At The Disco offers freshfact, the video for "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" won an
sounds for enthusiastic rock fans. They are a youngaward for Video of the Year on MTV's Music Video
group that has made great success with their debutAwards.
album, and their fans will enjoy them for a long time toTheir album, "A Fever You Can't Sweat Out," has also
come.enjoyed success, having gone platinum. Of course, "I
The group was originally formed by Ryan Ross andWrite Sins Not Tragedies" is the most well-known
Spencer Smith in the suburb of Summerlin, Las Vegas.song, but some of the others on the album have
Brent Wilson and Brendon Urie later joined the group,become well-known with the music videos that have
which was originally called Summer League. Theybeen created for them.
were originally a garage band that played locally. In thePanic! At The Disco's live performances not only
hopes of gaining a music label, they searched outfeature them in combination with headliners but have a
Peter Wentz, bassist for the band Fall Out Boy, andcircus-like quality about them. They have dancers and
sent him a link to a site online on which he could listenother performers on stage with them as they perform
to their music. Liking what he heard, Peter Wentztheir own work. They have also covered several
traveled to them and listened to them play live. He laterwell-established bands, such as The Beatles and the
signed them to his label, Decaydence/Fueled bySmashing Pumpkins. They are currently working on
Ramen. Brent Wilson left the band for unexplainedtheir second album which is due out sometime this
reasons which are still quite controversial and wasyear.
later replaced by Jon Walker who currently plays bassThis one-time, small-town garage band has enjoyed
for the band.successes that many would envy. They are enjoyed
Their single "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" has had muchon more than one continent. Their fans have spoken
commercial success. They were on MTV'S Totalby awarding them for their creativity in their
Request Live January 17, 2006. They first showedvideo-making and their talent as musicians. Their talents
their video there, and it was subsequently seen all overare proven time and again through the making of their
the Internet and music television waves shortly after.wonderful and creative music, as well as the time and
They have published a few other videos since then,effort that they put into creating their videos.
but none with the same kind of success as the first. In